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	Pay It Forward Foundation
		Pay It Forward Mini-Grants are designed to fund one-time-only service-oriented projects identified by youth as activities they would like to perform to benefit their school, neighborhood, or greater community.
		Projects must contain a "pay it forward" focus - that is, they must be based on the concept of one person doing a favor for others, who in turn do favors for others, with the results growing exponentially - to be considered in the grant making process.
		Adherence to the Pay It Forward concept (explaining how the project's benefits will multiply exponentially); Your application will not be considered if there is not a clear demonstration of how the benefits will multiply exponentially.
	www.payitforwardfoundation.org /educators/grant.html (356 words)

	Pay It Forward: Cinephiles Movie Review
		Pay It Forward effectively uses an economy of language, images and plot to expose --straightforwardly and truthfully-- complicated issues such as education, school violence, poverty, guns, alcohol and domestic abuse.
		Still, Eugene is impressed by Trevor's "Pay It Forward" class project, which dictates that if one person benefits from someone's act of good will, he or she must "pay it forward" to three more people, who in turn must pay another good deed to three other people.
		Nevertheless, Pay It Forward supports its own premise (concerning the plausibility of improving the world) by weaving into its main storyline several flash-forward scenes that demonstrate a widespread effectiveness and national popularity of the "pay-it-forward movement", only months after it was launched by its young author.
	www.cinephiles.net /Pay_It_Forward/Film-Synopsis.html (470 words)

	Pay It Forward
		PIF stands for "Pay It Forward", an admittedly lame name (best I could do on the spur of the moment) for a program that I began back in March of 2001.
		Nine months later, Pay It Forward is up to well over 1500 pipes, and close to 500 lbs of tobacco shipped to those who needed a "hand up".
		PIF has never been a "get acquainted" or "might give it a try" type of program.
	www.aspipes.org /pif.html (402 words)

	Movie Habit: Review of Pay It Forward (2000), ** 1/2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Trevor conceives the idea of “pay it forward”, wherein, after somebody does you a favor, you do a favor for three more people, who in turn do likewise until the world is full of shiny, happy people.
		Walk On Trevor’s desire to make the “pay it forward” dream happen is driven by a need to get out of the crappy (to put it politely) world in which he has to live.
		Pay It Forward fails to achieve a sense of euphoria from all the good these characters are spreading around.
	www.moviehabit.com /reviews/pay_js00.shtml (695 words)

	Pay It Forward (2000)
		"Pay it forward" is a world-changing idea that a Las Vegas seventh grader named Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with for an extra credit assignment in his social studies class.
		Sure, maybe pay it forward wouldn't work all that well in real life, but then again, this is a movie.
		If you saw the trailer for Pay It Forward and thought the concept was interesting, chances are you'll be able to accept it in the context in which it's presented and you'll end up enjoying it.
	www.moovees.com /review/pay-it-forward.html (759 words)

	Pay It Forward (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pay It Forward is like a low-rent As Good As It Gets, and I say this as someone who thought As Good As It Gets itself was pretty low-rent.
		Pay It Forward's very ambition of combatting all the cynicism in the world immediately throws an impossible obstacle in the way of an unimpressed critic: slam the film, and you sound like a participant in the global pessimism the film means to resist.
		Pay It Forward, then, is less a movie about doing favors for three strangers than about handing showy roles to three Hollywood stars, all of whom are being paid well to look bad and then go home to cross their fingers on Oscar-nomination day.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /payitfwd.html (1253 words)

	Pay It Forward. -A Hollywood Jesus Film Review
		Simonet to "pay it forward" back to his Mom and Jerry's plea to the woman preparing to jump from the bridge to "save my life" show that this film really is about "karma" and not grace.
		In Pay it Forward, however, there is no evidence that any of the main characters is a practicing Christian, and the path of least resistance is to assume that they are not.
		I speculate either that the writer and director were equally ignorant of the church's millennia-old example of paying it forward, or that they knew but didn't want any needles nearby that would puncture their balloon.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /pay_it_forward.htm (3799 words)

	Pay It Forward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pay It Forward is a 2000 American drama/romance film based on a book by Catherine Ryan Hyde.
		Chris finally tracks down Trevor as the originator of "pay it forward," which appears to be turning into a social movement, and conducts an interview at the school.
		The idea of the book and film has been brought to life by the Pay It Forward Foundation, and through the work of social activist Jane Tewson and the non-profit organization she founded, Timebank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pay_It_Forward (882 words)

	Pay it Forward
		Pay It Forward is a self-satisfied Hollywood corn cob up our asses, a movie that doesn't even try to entertain because it's too fucking busy congratulating itself.
		He comes up with the "Pay It Forward" plan, where each person is supposed to do three big favors for three other people who then must do three favors for others.
		Meanwhile, the bum conveniently stumbles upon a woman about to jump from a bridge, and saves her and other "Pay it Forward" gestures are occurring elsewhere across the country.
	www.bigempire.com /filthy/payitforward.html (1112 words)

	'Pay It Forward'
		Your reaction to "Pay It Forward" may depend on how much of a cynic you are -- in other words, how much you resemble the characters in the movie, whose bitterness largely precludes them from seeing the possibility that life can get better or that any of us can make a difference.
		Pay it forward by doing a favor for three other people, including (perhaps preferably) complete strangers.
		And then they pay it forward to three people each, and pretty soon you have random acts of kindness multiplying geometrically until humanity finally proves itself worthy of the name.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20001020pay2.asp (768 words)

	The Mediadrome - Film - Reviews - Pay It Forward
		With Pay It Forward, Osment not only makes good on his promise, but he also proves that he's not a one trick pony.
		Pay It Forward is by far her most emotional, powerful, and character-driven film to date, and she pushes all the right buttons to make it effective and engaging.
		Considering that the cast has three Oscar wins and one Oscar nomination between them, expectations for Pay It Forward are bound to be high.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/reviews/payitforward.htm (677 words)

	exploring creativity - Gary Holdgrafer - Pay It Forward
		Paying it forward is the opposite of paying it back.
		Paying it forward is a value that may decrease acts of human insensitivity.
		As we look forward to the New Year, we can think about all that we have and all we have received and how we might also pay it forward in the New Year.
	www.exploringcreativity.com /e_pay_forward.html (489 words)

	Review: Pay It Forward
		The primary branch of Pay It Forward is a chronological account of how the 11 year-old conceives of, develops, and attempts to implement his radical idea.
		Not everyone is going to appreciate Pay It Forward; there are those who despise It's a Wonderful Life and become physically ill at the thought of sitting through a scene of Forrest Gump.
		Throughout Pay It Forward, she treads the fine line between too little and too much, and only stumbles on one occasion, during a key scene near the end (the effect is reminiscent of the Schindler's List title character's agonizing over not saving more lives).
	www.reelviews.net /movies/p/pay_it.html (1430 words)

	Pay It Forward
		Their only obligation is to "pay it forward" by helping at least three other people who must agree to help three others, etc. In other words you don't "pay it back" to the person who helped you, you extend to others the kind of help you have experienced, but in a way that helps them.
		The purpose of the "Pay It Forward Movement" Website is to bring together, in one place, as many real life stories as she can.
		Pay It Forward - Soundtrack - CD - If young Thomas Newman hasn't reinvented the art of film scoring, he's certainly bent and hammered many of its most shopworn clichés into refreshing new musical elements.
	www.celebratelove.com /payitforward.htm (812 words)

	TNMC Movies: Reviews: Pay it Forward
		And most recently, the director of Pay it Forward, a film that has plenty of oscar buzz, but will never, ever take home a statuette.
		Pay it Forward is the story of a disfigured school teacher (Kevin Spacey), his student (Haley Joel Osment) and his alcoholic, struggling to survive mother.
		Jim Caviezel plays a bum whom the kid helps, and we see him pay it forward later on, but his scenes made me cringe with bad writing, and also for their utter randomness in the plot.
	www.tnmc.org /ind/payitforward.html (535 words)

	Pay it Forward Tour Proves Rewarding (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When "Pay It Forward" came out in 2000, novelist Catherine Ryan Hyde was surprised it inspired a worldwide movement of kindness.
		It was the city's kickoff event for its "Pay It Forward" beautification effort.
		There are tips for starting a Pay It Forward project; also project stories and excerpts from the book.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~stlf/html/pay_it_forward_tour_proves_rew.html (828 words)

	Pay It Forward Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
		Trevor's first act of kindness under the 'pay it forward' scheme is a homeless junkie (James Caviezel of "Frequency"), whom he befriends and invites to stay at his home until he can get on his feet again.
		The 'pay it forward' concept eventually catches the attention of a Los Angeles reporter (Jay Mohr of "Go"), who sets off to track it back to its source.
		"Pay It Forward" the film inspires the imagination in a similar way, and marks a dramatic change of pace for director Mimi Leder, whose two previous efforts were strictly genre offerings ("The Peacemaker" and "Deep Impact").
	www.mediacircus.net /payitforward.html (1027 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Pay It Forward
		"Pay It Forward" centers around Eugene Simonet, a disfigured teacher (Kevin Spacey), Trevor McKinnet, his prize student (Haley Joel Osment) and Arlene McKinney, the student's mother (Helen Hunt).
		"Forward" preaches that if we help somebody do something they can't do themselves and then they turn around and do it for three other people then we might just change the world.
		"Pay it Forward" has all the right issues and performances to be Oscar bound except it seems a little too contrived and innocent.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews/payitforward.shtml (660 words)

	Pay It Forward
		Simonet (Kevin Spacey), Trevor develops "Pay It Forward," a utopian strategy in which random favours are passed on to others rather than reciprocated.
		Leslie Dixon's clunky adaptation of Catherine Ryan Hyde's novel is structured so that we are introduced to the Pay It Forward movement already a part of the public consciousness.
		And it's this kind of knee-jerk cynicism that will pepper the negative remarks in Pay It Forward's pans; watch for detractors to also hinge their criticism on the term "manipulative," which I've always thought to be the most worthless insult one can lob at a motion picture.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/payitforward.htm (711 words)

	Pay It Forward
		From the idea of Pay It Forward, this name will be non-specific to any 1 person or organization.
		PIF 2007 was one of the best PIF's yet.
		Currently we are getting together in our PIF chat room, Sunday nights at 9PM eastern time.
	www.iwing.org /PIF/pay_it_forward.htm (360 words)

	Pay it Forward
		By the end of Pay it Forward, there will hardly be a dry eye in the theater.
		Then, instead of paying the person back, the recipient will "pay it forward" by helping out three additional people.
		The other story follows Trevor and his attempts to use 'pay it forward' to better the lives of people around him.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/pay_it_forward.html (533 words)

	Filmtracks: Pay It Forward (Thomas Newman)
		Pay It Forward: (Thomas Newman) Well, it's a trend.
		I was one of them, and after listening to the utterly bizarre score for Pay It Forward, I'm afraid that the transition may be permanent.
		The film Pay It Forward failed miserably in the theatres, receiving harsh criticism for its inconsistencies.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/pay_it_forward.html (671 words)

	Pay It Forward
		In "Pay it Forward", the Helen Hunt character goes to her estranged Mother to "pay it forward" with her.
		In the film, "Pay It Forward" Trevor, a seventh-grader, responds to the call of his Social Studies teacher to come up with a plan to change the world and act on it.
		His compassionate heart is memorialized at the end of the film as we see a long line of cars...people who have been touched by this sacrifice who never knew him, but have experienced his compassion in their lives through someone else.
	www.textweek.com /movies/pay_it_forward.htm (241 words)

	Pay It Forward (2000): Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Angie Dickinson - PopMatters Film Review
		Pay It Forward rigs its profound meanings through a series of devices that manage to be both amazing and banal.
		Lesson to be learned: "pay it forward" is a great idea, but it depends on people keeping promises, which most find very hard to do.
		In other words, Pay It Forward pushes very standard emotional buttons, particularly through Osment, apparently a born button-pusher, with his always-a-little-damp eyes, seeming frailty, and adorably lilting voice.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/p/pay-it-forward.shtml (1226 words)

	Pay It Forward review
		Pay it Forward follows the chain of events that the boy has set off and whose family also plays a part, all while erecting a satire of a certain social stratum of American society commonly known as white trash.
		Pay it Forward also seems to be a distant echo of American Beauty.
		Pay it Forward is a first degree film and simple in its conventional treatment of drama and comedy.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/payitforward.html (737 words)

	Ming the Mechanic: Pay it forward!
		The Pay it forward site was created by Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of "Pay it forward".
		In brief, the idea is that you pay "forward" (as opposed to paying "back") spontaneous acts of kindness you've received.
		In private, George told me that his church, which was going to be closed for lack of funds, had recently received an anonymous donation for $5000 that had "pay it forward" written on the envelope.
	ming.tv /flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001169 (1145 words)

	Calling All Angels
		Paying it forward is a method of passing on a favor that has been done for you -- but rather than "paying back" the person that did you the favor, you "pay it forward" -- you do a big favor for three other people.
		If every person pays it forward to three other people, and each of those people also do a favor for three others, it grows exponentially.
		And "paying it forward" is the concept of a 12 year old child (played by Haley Joel Osment) who later believes his project has failed because his three "favors" did not "succeed", at least in his eyes.
	www.innerself.com /Reflections/calling_all_angels.htm (1005 words)

	Pay It Forward
		Pay It Forward, directed by Mimi Leder, is what is technically known as a "feelgood" movie.
		Thomas Newman's approach to Pay it Forward is interesting for one single reason: it seems that the same kind of music can be used to score the opposing flipsides of American culture.
		As an album, Pay It Forward has little going for it, providing less of a score and more of a collection of sampled sound effects and rhythms.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /payitcd.htm (718 words)

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